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The Hitler of History by Shelby Hearon and John Lukacs (1997, Hardcover)

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In this brilliant, strikingly original book, historian John Lukacs delves to the core of Adolf Hitler's life and mind by examining him through the lenses of his surprisingly diverse biographers. Since 1945 there have been more than one hundred biographies of Hitler, and countless other books on him and the Third Reich. What happens when so many people reinterpret the life of a single individual? Dangerously, the cumulative portrait that begins to emerge can suggest the face of a mythic antihero whose crimes and errors blur behind an aura of power and conquest. By reversing the process, by making Hitler's biographers--rather than Hitler himself--the subject of inquiry, Lukacs reveals the contradictions that take us back to the true Hitler of history. Like an attorney, Lukacs puts the biographies on trial. He gives a masterly account of all the major works and of the personalities, methods, and careers of the biographers (one cannot separate the historian from his history, particularly in this arena); he looks at what is still not known (and probably never will be) about Hitler; he considers various crucial aspects of the real Hitler; and he shows how different biographers have either advanced our understanding or gone off track. By singling out those who have been involved in, or co-opted into, an implicit "rehabilitation of Hitler," Lukacs draws powerful conclusions about Hitler's essential differences from other monsters of history, such as Napoleon, Mussolini, and Stalin, and--equally important--about Hitler's place in the history of this century and of the world.

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Publisher
Knopf Doubleday Publishing Group
ISBN-10
0679446494
ISBN-13
9780679446491
eBay Product ID (ePID)
916762

Product Key Features

Book Title
Hitler of History
Author
Shelby Hearon, John Lukacs
Format
Hardcover
Language
English
Topic
General
Publication Year
1997
Genre
History, Fiction
Number of Pages
320 Pages

Dimensions

Item Length
9.6 in
Item Height
1.1 in
Item Width
6.6 in
Item Weight
24.7 Oz

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Lc Classification Number
Dd247.H5l84 1997
Copyright Date
1997
Target Audience
Trade
Lccn
97-074752
Dewey Decimal
943/.086/092
Dewey Edition
21

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